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State of Kuwait · Statutory text

Article 495 of Jaafari Personal Status Law

English translation

If a husband or wife inherits alongside paternal and maternal uncles, the husband or wife shall have the higher share of one-half or one-quarter, the maternal uncles shall have one-third, and the paternal uncles shall have the remainder. As for dividing the one-third among the maternal uncles and likewise dividing the remainder among the paternal uncles, according to Article 489.
Arabic original
إذا دخل الزوج أو الزوجة على الأعمام والأخوال كان للزوج أو الزوجة نصيبه الأعلى من النصف أو الربع وللأخوال الثلث وللأعمام الباقي، وأما قسمة الثلث بين الأخوال وكذلك قسمة الباقي بين الأعمام طبقا المادة ٤٨٩

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